Cane-umbrella



*UNITED 'STATES PAULENTV oFFIoE.

SAMUEL WRIGHT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CANE-UMBRELLA.

^ i Spec'ication of Letters Patent No. 5,500, dated-April 11, 1848.

T0 all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL WRIGHT, of th'ecity of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a newand useful Improvement in the Manner of Constructing a Combined Umbrellaand Walking-Cane; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description thereof. I am aware that umbrellas have long sincebeen made in such manner as to be contained within a tube made of thinsheet metal, or other light material of which tubes are made for variouspurposes, said tubes constituting a walking stick, or cane; and alsothat Letters Patent were granted in England for a device of this kind onthe 13th of July 1838, as appears by a publica.- tion thereof in theRepertory of Patent Inventors, vol. 11th, page 283. I do not intend,therefore, in the specification to claim to be the inventor of saidcombination, but only to an improvement in the manner of carrying thesame into operation.

In the accompanying drawing Figure l, is a sectional representation ofmy improved combined umbrella opened out, and Fig. 2, represents, insection, the umbrella inclosed within the tube, or walking cane.

A, A, is the tube; B, B, the rod, or wire, which constitutes what iscommonly called the stick of the umbrella. This may be made of ironwire, but for lightness I frequently make it tubular below that partthat contains the spring. The spreaders, or ribs, may be made of steelwire, or other suitable material, as may also the stretchers. The topwheel to which the ribs are attached is of the usual kind, but therunner is furnished with a female screw at its lower end, for thepurpose of attaching it to a male screw on the lower end of the tubularcase, in a manner to be now described.

Fig. 3, is a section of the runner, and of that part of the stick B,which contains the spring, drawn of the full size; a, is the femalescrew on the lower part of the runner; and on the lower part of theferrule b, there is a corresponding male screw, the two beingrepresented as screwed together in Fig. l. The stick B, has a head ofivory, or other substance c, screwed onto it,

and which may be taken hold of, when the head D, of the walking cane isunsorewed for the purpose of withdrawing the umbrella from the tube. Thehead c, of the stick, adapts the umbrella to being used independently ofthe tubular walking cane, but it is also adapted to beused. with saidcane as a handle; for this purpose the ferrule b, is made tubular,having a hole d, (Fig. 2) drilled through it of a size adapted to thereceiving of the stick B, from which the head c, may be unscrewed, andthe stick will then pass into the tube A, as shown in Fig. l, and whenso passed in the runner c, and the cane are to be screwed together, aniron thimble e, is screwed on to the ferrule b, and forms a solid end toit when the instrument is used as a walking cane; when the stick, ispassed into the tubular cane as in Fig. 1, said cane becomes the handleof the umbrella.

When it is desired to allow this umbrella to swivel,or turn around inthe caneA, which will enable it to escape the more readily from anyobject with which it may be brought into contact, I attach a swivelingend, or ferrule, to the lower part of the runner as shown in the sectionFig. 4, where a is a male screw similar to that so lettered in Fig. 3,and this is attached to the part a so as to swivel, or turn upon it.

The catch f, of the spring which passes into a mortise in the runner isso formed as to check, and hold the runner both from raising, ordescending its upper and lower ends being both made square; and this isnecessary to the proper action of the instrument, as it is intended thatthe runner should be capable of passing in both directions. By relievingthe runner from the catch it may be drawn down, and the urnbrella belowered in the usual way, preparatory to its being inserted in the tube;but by pushing the runner up toward the wheel, pushing the runner uptoward the heel, or cap, of the umbrella, it may be lowered also, theribs and cover falling upon the tubular cane, so that.it may beinstantaneously reopened.

From the manner in which this umbrella is constructed, it is capable ofbeing confined within a cane three or four inches shorter than such ashave been heretofore made, and which have been inconveniently long. Thetubular case, o'r cane, when made of thin sheet metal, I some timescover with thin cotton cloth, saturated with shellac, and grain it inimitation of wood, or otherwise.

Having thus fully described the manner in which I construct my combinedumbrella and walking cane, and shown the arrangement and use of therespective parts thereof,

what I claim therein as new and desire tov secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The manner in which I connect the umbrella and Cane, when the latteris used as a handle to the former, which I effect by perforating theerrule b, so that the stick may pass through it, andinto the tube Afthere being a female screw on the runner, end a corresponding male screwon the ferrule, to unite the two rmly together, as described.

